Miss Marple, another of Christie ’ s most famous characters, shares these characteristics of careful deduction though the attention paid to the small clues.

Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels, one play, and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era.

Poirot was voiced by Kōtarō Satomi and Miss Marple was voiced by Kaoru Yachigusa.

Jane Marple, usually referred to as Miss Marple, is a fictional character appearing in twelve of Agatha Christie's crime novels and in twenty short stories.

Miss Marple is an elderly spinster who lives in the village of St. Mary Mead and acts as an amateur detective.

Illustration by Gilbert Wilkinson of Miss Marple from the December 1927 issue of The Royal Magazine and the first-known image of the character ( See The Thirteen Problems # First publication of stories | The Thirteen Problems )

The character of Miss Marple is based on Christie's grandmother and her cronies, but there is no definitive source for the derivation of the name ' Marple '.

Agatha Christie attributed the inspiration for the character of Miss Marple to a number of sources: Miss Marple was " the sort of old lady who would have been rather like some of my grandmother's Ealing cronies – old ladies whom I have met in so many villages where I have gone to stay as a girl ".

This change saddened Christie and she determined to give old maids a voice: Miss Marple was born.

The character of Jane Marple in the first Miss Marple book, The Murder at the Vicarage, is markedly different from how she appears in later books.

This early version of Miss Marple is a gleeful gossip and not an especially nice woman.

Miss Marple never married and has no close living relatives.

Miss Marple solves difficult crimes because of her shrewd intelligence, and St. Mary Mead, over her lifetime, has given her seemingly infinite examples of the negative side of human nature.

Miss Marple has never worked for her living and is of independent means, although she benefits in her old age from the financial support of Raymond West, her nephew ( A Caribbean Mystery, 1964 ).

In They Do It with Mirrors ( 1952 ), it is revealed that, in her distant youth, Miss Marple spent time in Europe at a finishing school.

She is not herself from the aristocracy or landed gentry, but is quite at home among them ; Miss Marple would probably have been happy to describe herself as a gentlewoman.

In They Do It With Mirrors ( 1952 ), it is mentioned that Miss Marple grew up in a cathedral close, and that she studied at an Italian finishing school with Americans Ruth Van Rydock and Caroline " Carrie " Louise Serrocold.

( Ruth, prevailing on Miss Marple's long affection for them, arranges for Miss Marple to investigate Ruth's belief that Carrie Louise is in danger of her life.

Miss Burke will arrive in December also.

Another debutante, Miss Virginia Richmond, will also be the honoree this Wednesday at luncheon at which Mrs. John Dane, will be hostess entertaining at a downtown hotel.

The navy captain disclosed also that a list of questions found in Miss Gee's purse would, if completed and handed back, have given the Kremlin a complete picture `` of our current anti-submarine effort and would have shown what we are doing in research and development for the future ''.

Since she also has considerable technical virtuosity and a feeling for music in the romantic tradition, Miss Xydis gave her listeners a good deal of pleasure.

Choreographed by Mr. Nagrin, the work filled the second half of a program that also offered the first New York showing of Miss Tamiris' `` Once Upon A Time '' as well as her `` Women's Song '' and Mr. Nagrin's `` Indeterminate Figure ''.

* The Thirteen Problems ( short story collection featuring Miss Marple, also published as The Tuesday Club Murders ) ( 1932 )

* Miss Marple's Final Cases and Two Other Stories ( short stories collected posthumously, also published as Miss Marple's Final Cases, but only six of the eight stories actually feature Miss Marple ) ( written between 1939 and 1954, published 1979 )

Miss Marple also appears in Greenshaw's Folly, a short story traditionally included as part of the Poirot collection The Adventure of the Christmas Pudding ( 1960 ).

Rutherford also appeared briefly as Miss Marple in the spoof Hercule Poirot adventure The Alphabet Murders ( 1965 ).

) As well as portraying Miss Marple on television, Hickson also narrated a number of Miss Marple stories on audio books.

Angela Lansbury, who had played Miss Marple in the movie, The Mirror Crack'd, directed by Guy Hamilton, went on to star in the TV series Murder, She Wrote as Jessica Fletcher, a mystery novelist who also solves crimes.

In September 1977, veteran actress and authoress Dulcie Gray played the Miss Marple character in a stage adaptation of A Murder Is Announced at the Vaudeville Theatre in London, England that featured also Dinah Sheridan, Eleanor Summerfield, Patricia Brake and Barbara Flynn.

This myth is also recorded in an 18th-century Swedish folksong called Hammar-Hemtningen ( the taking of the hammer ), where Freyja is called Miss Frojenborg, " den väna solen " ( the fair sun ).

Miss Wood passed her research on to her student Belinda Quirey, and also to Pavlova Company ballerina & choreographer Mary Skeaping ( 1902 – 1984 ).

" A & C Black also note that British surgeons – a designation reserved for those who have obtained membership of the Royal College of Surgeons – are addressed as Mr, Mrs or Miss rather than Dr.

Runyon's fictional world is also known to the general public through the musical Guys and Dolls based on two of his stories, " The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown " and " Blood Pressure ".

Runyon's stories also employ occasional rhyming slang, similar to the cockney variety but native to New York ( e. g.: " Miss Missouri Martin makes the following crack one night to her: ' Well, I do not see any Simple Simon on your lean and linger.

The halftime show also featured the Longhorn Band, along with Judy Mallett, Miss Texas 1973, playing the fiddle, in a tribute to American music titled " A Musical America ".

The cast also included Dana Ivey as Miss Prism, Paxton Whitehead as Rev.

" While most of the blame was attributed to Olivier's acting and direction, Leigh was also criticised, with Bernard Grebanier commenting on the " thin, shopgirl quality of Miss Leigh's voice.

The event was also highlighted by the appearance of four winners of the Miss Indonesia beauty pageant: Nadine Alexandra Dewi, Inda Adeliani, Alessandra K Usman, and Reisa Kartikasari.

Then when Miss Langford was on the end of the line of girls, Jack, in the middle of the line, gave an extra hard pull and the young teacher sprawled backwards, sitting down hard, her dress flying over her head.

In the afternoon Miss Hosaka and her mother invited me to go with them and young Mrs. Kodama to see the famous Spring dances of the Geisha dancers.

Likewise, it is Miss Marple herself who poses as a maid to find out the facts of the case, not a young friend of hers who has made a business of it.

Mornings were spent in the schoolroom ; there were regimental afternoon walks ; educating the young ladies continued at mealtimes when Miss Edgeworth ate with the family ; at night, the governess slept in a curtained off area in the girls ’ bedroom.

Brooks Atkinson for the New York Times wrote, " Although Miss Leigh and Mr. Olivier are handsome young people they hardly act their parts at all.

At Russell Square, Miss Sharp is introduced to the dashing and self-obsessed Captain George Osborne ( to whom Amelia has been betrothed from a very young age ) and to Amelia's brother Joseph Sedley, a clumsy and vainglorious / boastful but rich civil servant fresh from the East India Company.

Both treat their own lives like those of heroines in fantastical works of fiction, with Miss Morland likening herself to a character in a Gothic novel and young Briony Tallis writing her own melodramatic stories and plays with central characters such as " spontaneous Arabella " based on herself.

In the airplane of the Maharajah of Chandrapore are Conway, the British consul, age 37 ; Mallinson, his young vice-consul ; an American, Barnard ; and a British missionary, Miss Brinklow.

Davis played Miss Moffat, an English teacher who saves a young Welsh miner ( John Dall ) from a life in the coal pits, by offering him education.

Clarabelle also has a young cousin, Bertie the Jinx, a niece, Itsy-Betsy, and a socialite aunt named Miss Bovina, who have appeared in several issues of Walt Disney's Comics and Stories.

* Miss Shirley Brahms, a young, attractive, working-class, cockney-speaking junior assistant to Mrs. Slocombe.

Laurel County is home to Chera-Lyn Cook, the first young woman from Southeast Kentucky to win the title of Miss Kentucky.

Then Aziz looks down the hill and sees Adela speaking to another young Englishwoman, Miss Derek, who has arrived with Fielding in a car.

A barn-like building known as the Harbor House was established and run by a Miss Clara Potter and quickly became a haven for many young girls.

Miss Agnes Stewart, a young woman from Pennsylvania, was the first teacher.

They were John, Amariah and Hannah ( wife of George L. Byon ) Hammond ; Esther Wright ( second wife of Ira Bulkley ); Elizabeth Cook ( wife of Orsemus Rathbone ); Willis and Nancy ( wife of Brockhurst L. Baker ) Hammond ; George L. and Harris T. Ryon ; Benson, Elizabeth and Charles Tubbs ; Maria Coates ( wife of Lorenzo Cook ); Edward, Charlotte and Hester Buck ; Phebe Mascho, who died young, and her brother Charles ; and a girl named Rifle, who lived in the family of John Ryon, Sr. Miss Wright ’ s pay for teaching was " calculated at one dollar per week, or one bushel of good merchantable wheat.

In the ensuing media frenzy, it came to light that Miss Bradley was actually Mrs. Otis Rogers, having secretly wed the young law student more than a year prior.

Miss Amelia Dedham ( Allen ) is a " proper " young lady " of means " from Boston, who has become the chairman of the board of the Dedham Shipping Company.

Marlow sets out for the Hardcastle's manor with a friend, George Hastings, an admirer of Miss Constance Neville, another young lady who lives with the Hardcastles.

The Miss America pageant is a long-standing competition which awards scholarships to young women from the 50 states plus the Washington, D. C., Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands.

The Miss America Scholarship program, along with its local and state affiliates, is the largest provider of scholarship money to young women in the United States and in the world.

Somerset Maugham, in his short story " The Round Dozen " ( 1924, also known as " The Ardent Bigamist ") observes: " I remember Miss Broughton telling me once that when she was young people said her books were fast and when she was old they said they were slow, and it was very hard since she had written exactly the same sort of book for forty years ".

Under the pen-name Miss Sadie Blackeyes, he wrote popular flagellation novels such as Baby douce fille ( 1910 ), Miss: The memoirs of a young lady of quality containing recollections of boarding school discipline and intimate details of her chastisement ( 1912 ), and Petite Dactylo et autres textes de flagellation ( 1913 ).